Freud Psychoanalytic Theory

Front 1

conscious

Back 1

- info a clt is paying attn to at any given time
-sensations due to thoughts, emotions, memories
-Reality principle functioning

Front 2

preconscious

Back 2

- info outside of clt's consciousness but readily available if needed
-operates according to reality principle

Front 3

unconscious

Back 3

- thoughts, feelings, desires and memories that clt has no awareness of but influence life
- can be repressed fantasies & experiences from childhood and adolescence
-guided by pleasure principle

Front 4

id

Back 4

- instant gratification
- source of all motives, instincts, & energy
- biological urges, ie. impulses for survival, sex, & aggression
- unconscious; guided by pleasure principle of achieving pleasure and avoiding pain

Front 5

ego

Back 5

- rational, reality-oriented
- delayed gratification
- operates based on reality principle gratification of impulses must be delayed to meet real world's demands
- stops id from gratifying its impulses in socially unacceptable ways

Front 6

egosyntonic

Back 6

- behaviors "in sync" with ego
- no guilt: clt is comfortable with their behavior

Front 7

egodystonic

Back 7

- behaviors not in sync with ego
- clt feels guilt and is bothered by their behavior

Front 8

ego strength

Back 8

- when ego effectively deals with demands of id, superego, and reality
- maintains emotional stability and coping with stresses
- ie. someone with too little ego strength feels torn between competing demands. someone with too much can be too rigid and unyielding.

Front 9

sugerego

Back 9

- sense of moral standards learned from parents and society
- forces ego to conform to reality and its ideals of morality, thus causing clts to feel guilty when going against societal rules